Posted on 06/05/2011 1:07:29 AM PDT by doug from upland
Updated: Sun., Jun. 5, 2011, 3:33 AM Weiner comes up short By STEVE KORNACKI
Last Updated: 3:33 AM, June 5, 2011
Posted: 12:19 AM, June 5, 2011
Schadenfreude partly explains why so many members of New York’s political class, who have long regarded Anthony Weiner as a self-promoting empty suit, are privately delighted by the Twitter mess in which the Brooklyn and Queens congressman now finds himself.
But there’s also a much more practical reason for their glee: Not only is the story a potential blow to Weiner’s standing at the top of the 2013 mayoral pack, there is suddenly real doubt over whether he’ll even try to succeed Michael Bloomberg.
Weiner, of course, has been running for mayor since the moment the 2009 campaign ended. And before this past week, he had maneuvered his way into an enviable position, appealing simultaneously to two very different — and very important — constituencies. There was his old base, lunch pail outerborough Democrats, who had been with him since 2005, when Weiner sold himself as an Ed Koch type during his first mayoral campaign. And there was his new fan club, liberals from Manhattan and Brownstone Brooklyn, who came to see Weiner in a new light when he began playing a wise-cracking ideologue on national cable news shows.
This added up to a potentially formidable coalition for ’13, one that was good enough to put Weiner at the top of most early polls. Factor in the niche appeal and low political wattage of most of his likely rivals and his prospects improved further. Weiner’s big moment, it seemed, was about to arrive.
But now it’s much more complicated.
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This article sure works for me, I didn’t know who he was other than that he was a Dem politician that we might bring down from this scandal, my son lives in Brooklyn, and this mayor thing is finally a serious component to the story instead of all the wiener jokes we hear everywhere.
Finally I can tune into this story,it may have significance after all.
IIRC, the weiner was going to run for mayor and that’s when Hillary thru Huma, got him not to.....then he was “surprised” that he got engaged. I wonder if HUMA sent out this picture.....hmmmmmmmmm.
That opinion of the Weiner transcends states' boundaries.
A potential blow to Weiner? That's what he was looking for....
Yeah the weiner definitely is facing the Battle of the Buldge.
...the joke that keeps on going....
BTW, I think that Weiner and "Debbie the Ding-Bat" need to become the Face of the Democratic party...
I’d love to see him as mayor of NY.
Get out of congress where he can do real damage.
What ever happened to the Hillary case???
Weiner shrinkage?
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